Are feminist groups giving women access to accurate information?

Feminists long insisted that women be told the truth and given full information about issues concerning them. Yet when it comes to abortion, women are kept ignorant. They are fed lies, euphemisms and disinformation. Verbal engineering is used to dehumanise the preborn child. It is the same as in war: It is not ‘the killing of men, women and children’, ‘but attrition of unfriendly forces.’

A high profile feminist spokesperson, Molly Yard, said on US television show "A Current Affair" a few years ago "You don’t kill anything … a bunch of blood and a bunch of cells … those of you who pretend it’s a human being are lying …. Nothing is there at 6-8 weeks … a bunch of nonsense."

Arguments dehumanising foetal children bear a familiar ring: smallness, lack of brain development, whether or not they have a soul or personhood, all these ideas have been used against woman. This is no accident. Dehumanisation that excuses violence follows a similar pattern.

In a brief to the US Supreme Court, a physician claimed: "In medical practice there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazards as abortion. The woman’s ambivalence is dismissed, risks downplayed and any real discussion of foetal characteristics/alternatives avoided. The only medical procedure where normal requirements for informed consent prior to undergoing medical procedure are suspended. Courts have disallowed printed information on foetal development because it would ‘confuse/punish her and heighten her anxiety.'

Information re ‘detrimental physical/psychic effects’ and particularly ‘medical risks’ are not provided as likely to ‘compound the problem of medical attendance, increase patients’ anxiety and intrude upon physicians' exercise of proper professional judgement."

The pro-abortion lobby consider women such poor decision-makers, so fragile and easily confused that they need not be provided with information relevant to their future health.

The implication is that women are helpless, empty-headed, cowardly, submissive and hysterical.